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Sonnet on Secrets
When gamblin' you should always bet on red,
When smugglin' best the speed limit obey,
When spyin' undercover in the bed
You'll be a double agent, come what may.
The oily villain simpers on his rig;
His satellite of love is out of range,
His decoys for their breeches grew too big,
His drag is lame, his pussy's got the mange.
Let's steal a buggy... fly me to the moon!
Drown him in boiling mud, wrap me in fur;
His submarine'll be a shipwreck soon,
But some things are forever, I concur.
These secrets seem to make for vicious games;
Your word may be your bond but please, no names.
© Sara Nicola Ruth
Big Up
⛱ “Satellite Of Love” is one of Lou Reed’s best-known songs from his solo career. It is the second single from his 1972 album Transformer.
⛱ “Fly Me To The Moon“, originally titled “In Other Words”, is a popular song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song in 1954. Frank Sinatra‘s 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.
⛱ “Vicious Games” is a track from Stella (1985) the fourth studio album by the Swiss electronic band Yello.
⛱ Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming — an evil genius with aspirations of world domination, the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond, and head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE.
Many of Blofeld’s characteristics have become clichés of supervillains in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the evil genius. In many versions, even the stroking of his white cat has been retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld’s character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series.
Blofeld appears or is heard in six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball(1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981). [A rebooted Blofeld also appeared in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021) but that was after I wrote this poem.]
In the third, fourth, and fifth appearances – You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever – he is the primary antagonist, meeting Bond face-to-face. During the opening sequence of Diamonds Are Forever, he reveals to Bond that some of his men have undergone plastic surgery to become decoy duplicates of him.
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